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Attorneys for the man accused of murdering Kate Steinle on San Francisco’s Pier 14 two years ago want to present evidence at trial they believe will show their client didn’t steal the gun allegedly used in the killing, but found it moments before the shooting. The defense believes if it can show Zarate, 54, didn’t steal the gun, it will back up its argument that he found the weapon on the pier, and Steinle’s death was a tragic accident, not a cold-blooded killing. “The series of break-ins is consistent with a skilled auto burglar or a ring of thieves who...

Wilber Zarate filed a lawsuit against the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals for taking his 9-year-old daughter’s dog from their mobile park home and then putting the pooch down ahead of the state’s mandatory five-day grace period.... In the suit, Zarate claimed PETA works under a board policy of euthanizing animals because it “considers pet ownership to be a form of involuntary bondage.”

Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) Infiltration and Influence in America  "Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our aspiration."  "It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet." --Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood What the Muslim Brotherhood means for the US: Memo lays bare group's plans to destroy U.S. from within By Ron Dreher, Dallas Morning News   "Our strategy...

The United States has concluded that Syria helped finance the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Officials said the regime of President Bashar Assad used the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria to relay hundreds of millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq. They said the money has been deployed to finance the insurgency against the U.S.-led coalition primarily in Iraq's Sunni Triangle. The Commercial Bank of Syria held more than $1 billion in Saddam regime accounts on the eve of the U.S.-led war in Iraq in March 2003, officials said. Most of that money stemmed from Iraqi arms and...

WASHINGTON, Nov 14, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A Senate committee Monday is scheduled to hear new details of how cash from kickbacks to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein paid by companies doing business with his regime under the U.N. oil-for-food program may be helping fund the insurgency being waged against U.S. forces there. The hearing, before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Government Affairs panel, will hear testimony from Charles Duelfer, the CIA official who led the fruitless hunt for weapons of mass destruction after the war, and from Juan Carlos Zarate, the deputy assistant secretary...